Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12
N72DJ is a Vans Aircraft Inc RV-12, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a four-stroke engine, built in 2012. It has 2 seats. It is registered to an individual in Sequim, Washington. The registration is valid: it was issued on November 26, 2021 and expires on November 30, 2028. It holds an experimental airworthiness certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 19, 2012. 1 document is on file: bill of sale (evidence of ownership).
Aircraft
- Maker
- Vans Aircraft Inc
- Model
- RV-12 · all RV-12s and related versions
- Serial number
- 120212
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engine
- Power
- Four-cycle piston, 1 motor · Rotax 912ULS SERIES · 100 hp
- Seats
- 2
- Year built
- 2012
- Transponder code
- A9A187 (octal 52320607)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registration
- Certificate issued
- November 26, 2021
- Expires
- November 30, 2028
- Last FAA action
- June 23, 2023
- Airworthiness
- Experimental · Operating light-sport kit-built · June 19, 2012
- FAA region
- Northwest Mountain
- FAA record id
- 01079645
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Carmody Brendan P
- Type
- Individual
- Address
- 361 Salal Way
Sequim, WA 98382-9660
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 1
Earlier use of this number 1
Records check free · 1 to understand · 4 clear
The public federal record on N72DJ, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Carmody Brendan P, an individual, certificate issued November 26, 2021, expires November 30, 2028. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
Experimental certificate for operating light-sport kit-built, dated June 19, 2012, consistent with the 2012 manufacture year. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 120212 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
N72DJ was previously assigned to 1 other aircraft: Cessna 500 (serial 5000072, cancelled September 20, 2006). Histories keyed to the tail number alone can mix aircraft up; this check keys on the serial number. [2]
1 document received recently: Bill of sale (evidence of ownership) (September 8, 2026). [3]
No NTSB investigation records located under N72DJ. CLEAR means the query ran and returned nothing, not that nothing ever happened. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through August 27, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data